The Willows Lower Street Southrepps Norwich Norfolk NR11 8UL Data via plota.co.uk

EF/26/0573 - Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use Withdrawn

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate for proposed: 1. Reinstatement of a car parking area within the garden. 2. Replacement of derelict garden shed with new shed and a pergola 3. Reduction of existing log store in size and relocate elsewhere within garden 4. Removal of one dead tree, remove another small tree and remove old tree stump 5. Installation of a new central heating oil storage tank within garden 6. Replacement of all windows to main house within new upvc double-glazed windows, keeping style and sizing unchanged 7. Upgrading of existing first-floor cloakroom to a full bathroom, with new layout and addition of bath 8. Installation of new oil-fired central heating system, with external boiler 9. Carrying out of urgent repairs to roof and chimneys 10. Reduction in height of floor in part of kitchen 11. Installation of chemical damp proof course and treat timbers for woodworm 12. Installation of a new woodburner in disused fireplace Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
17 Mar 2026
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Validated
17 Apr 2026
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Withdrawn
1 Jun 2026
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Consultation
2 Jun 2026

Withdrawn on 1 Jun 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Site constraints 9

Nutrient neutrality catchment: Ant Broads and Marshes
New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.
Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.
Southrepps (Lower) conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Local nature reserve about 25 m away: Southrepps Common
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Agricultural land, grade 1
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
SSSI about 25 m away: Southrepps Common SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
National landscape about 290 m away: Norfolk Coast; Priority habitat about 28 m away: Purple moor grass and rush pastures; Open access land about 22 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £265,000 in October 2025. Detached house, freehold.

29 October 2025£265,000
25 September 2009£165,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use
Postcode
NR11 8UL
Received
17 Mar 2026
Validated
17 Apr 2026
Ward
Roughton
Parish
Southrepps
Case officer
Show
Target decision
12 Jun 2026
Decision
Application Withdrawn
Decision date
1 Jun 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14719484
Planning Portal ref
PP-14719484
Consultation
2 Jun 2026
Comments by
23 Jun 2026
Statutory expiry
12 Jun 2026
Env. assessment
No
North Norfolk
Planning Authority Score
5.4/10
Average
#125 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

North Norfolk ranks #175 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
North Norfolk decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
94%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #43 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #56 of 296
61%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #175 of 296
44%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #183 of 296
85%
Minor dwellings approved
113 decided (1-9 homes)
81%
Major dwellings approved
16 decided (10+ homes)
85%
Change of use approved
34 decided
906
Total decisions
56 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.